Help Me Preserve My Repurtation

[Dave Kase]

post a pic of that bracket, maybe we can help.  Post on the 20v list 
also.  We'll solve this mystery.

Dave K

Paul Caouette wrote:

>Audifans,
>
>Last week my daughter's 90Q (20v) started overheating so I volunteered to
>"fix it."
>
>Now I've been preaching troubleshooting to her since she could walk into the
>garage. "Always start with the simplest solutions and work towards the most
>complicated.It saves you lots of effort."
>
>I drove the car in witht the guage a bit past center and popped the hood. No
>fan....Hmmm. That's simple. Then I reached in and gave the fan blade a
>spin......The fan began the run but at very low rpm. Lower than even the low
>setting on the two stage fan.....Hmmmm. Looks like it can't be the
>thermostat 'cause it either on or off. So I forget my own lesson and spend
>the next three days removing the fan motor. In the process I broke off the
>plastic stem that connects the expansion tank to the radiator and had to
>drill and tap the hole for a metal insert. I finally get the fan out after
>wrestling with the shroud and discover on the benck that it works just
>fine....&%$*@&!
>
>Just before putting the shroud back in I discover that the engine mount is
>broken so I spend another night replacing that.
>
>Tonight I tell her, "You have to help me reassemble." And she does.
>
>We had a great time but like all my work I alway seem to have an extra nut
>or screw left over. I made light of it and told her it always happens and
>not to worry.
>
>We start up the car and everything works fine. Even the metal stem!
>
>"See," I said, "You don't ever need all the parts they put on a car."
>
>Wwe drop it off the jacks and she backs it out slowly. As the car backs out
>there on the floor is a bracket. She stops the car and gets out. I pick up
>the braket and we both contemplate it. It is something I can't recall
>removing and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is...or where it
>fits.
>
>Katherine is now reluctant to drive the car..and I;m reluctant to admit that
>I might have really screwed up.
>
>Perhaps one of you might have access to the parts fiche (or DVD) and help me
>with botha aname and an idea as to where it might fit
>
>The number on the backet is 443419857A.
>
>Any help would be appreciated..... although perhaps I should maintain that I
>am a dummy so she won't be asking me to fix her car...ever again!
>
>
>Paul
>In Dnever
>'83 TQC
>89 200 wagon
>90 20v q
>1998 A4 Avant
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